VIA8850 Cortex A9 w/Mali400 - Performance is said to be similar to Allwinner A10 but should cost less. Little too late for this chip now.

AllWinner A13 Cortex A8 w/Mali400 - A much cheaper version of the A10 chip at US$4.99. A10 cost $15? Performance and/or features will be worse than A10 chip!!!

MTK6575 Cortex A9 SGX531 - This is said to be a dual-core, mainly used in mobile phones, but can be used in tablet too. However, the GPU is on the weak side for 3D gaming. Only good for simple gaming but bad for any real gaming.

All of the above ARM chips in "quoted section" are on the weak side for CPU, GPU or both. All of these *other* CPUs, seem to be a disappointment!!! Only 8726-MX & RK3066 are the real winners and will become very popular in Chinese tablets!!! Tablets already being released with these two chips. More to come in next 1-2 months.

Finally have powerful, Chinese dual core tablets coming out that outperform Tegra 2 and give iPad 2 and Tegra 3 tablets a run for their money!!!

Any information on what fabrication process these chips are using? It's an often-overlooked, but still important characteristic besides core count and architecture. I have said it before, the Allwinner A10 is a decent chip, but it could have been better if it was fabbed at 40nm instead of 65nm. It would run much cooler and consume lesser battery. My Aurora could be a 10 hour battery life tablet if it was 40nm.

Info for these ARM CPUs is hard to come by. I am sure someone will look into it when tablets with these chips start coming out. For me, I only care about seeing reviews that include performance and battery life.

I expect 8726-MX to be 40-55nm. Rockchip RK3066 40-45nm. But those are just my guesses.

I saw it mentioned that the Ramos W17 PRO will have 5000mAh battery which should last 4-5 hours. That just shows how much power the 8726 chip consumes. It was one reason I chose to go with i7 (RK2918) tablet rather than C91/C71 (8726-M1). Power draw seems kinda high on 8726 tablets. Maybe doesn't use mobile RAM? RK3066 will probably do better with power consumption but come out later on.

The RK3066 would be the better chip to get but have to wait another 2-4 months longer after 8726-MX is released.

It seems rockchips rk 30xx will be better than AML8726-MX because of quadcore GPU.
I suspect the Aurora 2 will be using AML8726-MX because those chips already at the market.
I wonder whether Aurora 1 has single GPU or dual core GPU.

PPS, Hong Kong Fair starts April 13. Lots more info will come out next week about tablets using 8726-MX & RK3066. Ramos supposed to show off 3 tablets with dual core CPUs @ HK fair. Also, tablets that will use RK3066 will be shown too by Rockchip. etc.,

Just bought the ZTPad 10`` Cortex A9 Android 4 is the system the better of all?Was cosidering ipad but saw this and thought it was decent for price. Although not that well up on tech stuff

I've seen them all and it has the most solid build and good speed for its price. I've dropped a few here and they still work good. My gripe on all of the 10" coming out of China is battery life. But we have found a solution for that.

Not only are they coming out with 2 core CPUs but the clock speeds have jumped by 500-600MHz too. This will give a *major* CPU performance jump. This is why people are best to hold off buying *expensive* tablets until these come out. At earliest, 1-2 months for MX and 3-4 months for RK3066.

The CPU performance difference will be major. As for GPU performance, hard to say. A10 & 8726-M1/M3 appear to have dual core Mali400 GPU. So, difference between A10 & 8726-MX in GPU benches maybe very small and minor. ie, maybe get similar gpu bench results but 8726-MX will run everything very smoothly.

PS, this is the same to what happened with iPad1 (single core, Cortex A8) to iPad2 (dual core, Cortex A9). The 8726-MX should be close to or better than iPad2 GPU performance. The RK3066 should pass iPad2 and hopefully reach iPad3 GPU performance. At least the performance gap between iPad2 & Tegra3 tablets will now become very small with these new dual core A9 chips coming out.

Not only are they coming out with 2 core CPUs but the clock speeds have jumped by 500-600MHz too. This will give a *major* CPU performance jump. This is why people are best to hold off buying *expensive* tablets until these come out. At earliest, 1-2 months for MX and 3-4 months for RK3066.

The CPU performance difference will be major. As for GPU performance, hard to say. A10 & 8726-M1/M3 appear to have dual core Mali400 GPU. So, difference between A10 & 8726-MX in GPU benches maybe very small and minor. ie, maybe get similar gpu bench results but 8726-MX will run everything very smoothly.

PS, this is the same to what happened with iPad1 (single core, Cortex A8) to iPad2 (dual core, Cortex A9). The 8726-MX should be close to or better than iPad2 GPU performance. The RK3066 should pass iPad2 and hopefully reach iPad3 GPU performance. At least the performance gap between iPad2 & Tegra3 tablets will now become very small with these new dual core A9 chips coming out.

Great news. This will make them formidable gaming machines. The future is mobile. I can see it clearly. I bet World Of Warcraft has an Android/OSX solution here real soon.

Edit: But they need to get this Mali-400 GPU driver thing fixed and China needs to find a way to share the info because right now the way it is it's useless.

Great news. This will make them formidable gaming machines. The future is mobile. I can see it clearly.

True, future is ARM & mobile devices. Smartbooks were supposed to come out first with ARM chips to take take on netbooks (Atoms). But, because of tablets that never happened. More money to be made with tablets. Also, can hook up a USB/bluetooth keyboard to tablet and you pretty much have a smartbook anyways.

Now with dual core A9s from China. Chinese ARM chips will have CPU power that is closer to dual core Atom systems. Sunspider will drop from about 4000-5000ms to 2000ms or less which will make web browsing much more enjoyable. Everything should run smoother and faster with 2 X A9s. The A8s were kinda CPU limited but still worked pretty Ok. They were similar to running a single core Atom netbook.

Rockchip also say they are working on a 28nm chip that may come out by mid 2013. Looks like things are going to heat up in 2013 between these chip makers. The hardware seems to be getting better but OS support lacking from Chinese tablet makers. They stop supporting their old tablets pretty quick. Only get like 6 months support at best and at worst, 0-3 months. That is the really disappointing part because they want to move onto the next product to sell. They make money by selling newer tablet models and coming out with better product than competitor. Seem to focus more on selling newer products than supporting older ones. Should support all their tablets for at least 1 year!!!

You have AllWinner A10 chip which is Cortex A8. It is single core & normally comes @ 1GHz though few tablets have 1.2GHz speed. It has somewhat better GPU than my tablet otherwise *all* of the CPU benches are very close to what I get. GPU benches will give different results.

Run Sunspider and you will see somewhere between 3500-5000ms (normal for A8) though with very bad firmware, 7000-10000ms. A dual core Cortex A9 tablet will get about 1700-2200ms. Sunspider is very CPU intense bench.http://www.webkit.or.../sunspider.html

Trust me. I have known about the AllWinner A10 chip before it was released. A10 = chip name. Just like Rockchip RK2918. RK2918 = chip name. Nvidia Tegra2. Tegra2 = chip name., etc.

AllWinner named it A10 to confuse people into thinking they have Cortex A10 when they are just buying a Cortex A8.

Run Sunspider and you will see somewhere between 3500-5000ms (normal for A8) though with very bad firmware, 7000-10000ms. A dual core Cortex A9 tablet will get about 1700-2200ms. Sunspider is very CPU intense bench.http://www.webkit.or.../sunspider.html

may i know.. on what Allwinner A10 tablet u get 3500-5000ms ? i test the benchmark on my LY-F1 ( default browser ) i get 7488.6ms